Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

A visit to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is an exhilarating and enriching experience. The Van Gogh Museum is the ultimate destination for connoisseurs of art from across the globe. It is the repository for most of the paintings by the Dutch Master, Vincent Van Gogh. The display projects his entire collection of works and provides the students of arts with an extensive insight into the development of his work. There is also ample scope for the viewer to determine the style of Van Gogh's art and the way in which he differed from his predecessors or his contemporaries.

Established in 1973, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses around 500 sketches, 200 paintings and about 700 epistolary accounts. There is also a collection of Japanese prints that was the work of the master painter himself. Van Gogh's brother, Theo Van Gogh was the possessor of this invaluable collection. Despite the sale of some of his works, a large portion of it was retained. It passed on to his son after his demise who gave it all away to the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation.

At present the Museum functions on the money derived from the sale of tickets and the money that it receives from the Sponsor Lottery. Apart from the works of Vincent Van Gogh it also exhibits works by other 19th century artists like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Jean Francois Millet and Leon Lhermitte.


Works at the Van Gogh Museum
It houses nearly all works by Vincent Van Gogh. Some of the well-known ones are:

• Almond Blossom
• Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church
• The Harvest
• Boulevard De Clichy
• The Raising of Lazarus ( after Rembrandt)
• The Pink Orchard
• The Vicarage at Nuenen
• The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Van Gogh Museum - Timings
The Museum remains open on all days of the week between 10:00 am in the morning to 6:00 pm in the evening with the exception of Friday when it remains open till 10:00 pm at night. The Museum observes a holiday on 1st January. Tickets are priced at 10 Euro for adults and at 2.50 Euro for visitors between the ages of 13 and 17. Children up to the age of 12 can avail free entry into the museum.